Safety Standards for Sunglasses

With grateful thanks to Simon Pavy from ZEISS, ODMA has updated the Questions and Answers on the Sunglass Standard to give guidance on how distributors/ manufacturers can meet the requirements of the mandatory consumer product safety standard for sunglasses and fashion spectacles based on AS/NZS 1067.1:2016 Sunglasses and fashion spectacles (“the Standard”). The answers have been assembled as a pragmatic approach that takes into account balancing the following factors:

• the cost burden to the industry of fully testing every parameter listed in the Standard for the thousands of different sunglass products sold in the Australian market each year

• providing a responsible and reasonable level of assurance of compliance to the Standard that does not significantly increase the safety risk to consumers.

You will need to go to the Members Only area to see the Q & A.